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“Hey Mash, Saber Lily, want to see a trick?” Violet asked, looking up from the work she was doing on her tablet.

Mash and Saber Lily stopped their conversation on the lounge’s couch and turned their attention to the master. “Of course, Senpai,” replied Mash.

“Okay.” Violet pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.

“Senpai?!” Mash exclaimed in surprise.

Violet held up her hand to silence her before proceeding. She pulled out a cigarette and put it between her lips. She then attempted to light it.

Behind her, in a smooth motion Hektor reached over her shoulder, plucked the cigarette out of her mouth,and lit it with the lighter before sticking it in his own mouth and walking away.

Violet watched him as he left the lounge, probably to the smoking room nearby before pulling out another.

“Master-” Saber Lily began.

Violet held up a finger and attempted to light the new cigarette, but this time the lighter would not light.

She felt a presence come up behind her. Long blue hair brushed her cheeks. She looked up with the cigarette in her mouth to see Caster Cu hanging over her. He plucked the cigarette from her lips and lit it with his flame. He started puffing the cigarette as he left the room.

“Senpai-”

Violet put a third cigarette in her mouth. She didn’t even have time to try lighting it before an armored hand pulled it from her lips.

She turned to see Vlad with the cigarette in his hand, his red eyes looking down at her.

“You know better than to soil yourself with such things, my young friend,” he said as he crushed the stick in his hand and threw it in the trash near the exit.”

When he left, Violet turned to her friends with a smile.

“Senpai, what was that?” asked Mash.

“Happens every time I try to smoke a cig,” Violet said, putting down the cigarettes and leaning back into the couch.

“Senpai, I’ve never seen you smoke before. Are you interested in it?”

“Nope! I just happened to find that pack in storage,” she replied, kicking her legs. “It’s bad for you, you know. That nicotine’s addictive. You get hooked on it and next thing you know your teeth are hideous and you’re hacking up a lung. Can really mess up your voice too. If that happened, Phantom would have my head”

“Then what was all that?” asked Saber Lily.

“I noticed that Chaldea had a supply of cigarettes and loose tobacco that some of the servants and staff members use. I got curious one day and decided to try one out. I was trying to light one with a barbecue lighter when Holmes took it away from me. Said it, objectively, didn’t suit me before throwing it away. I tried again but the second time Kiyohime kicked up a fuss about ‘Anchin-sama’s’ health. Third time, I was just curious about the reactions now, I went to the smoking room to light up. Robin took it from me and used it himself. I’ve done it a couple more times just to see what would happen. Hans took it out of my mouth and called me an idiot. Kintoki took mine and said it was bad for me (Sounds hypocritical, but he is a heroic spirit). Even Billy took it from me!” Violet exclaimed, sitting up. “He’s younger than me and he had the audacity to take it and use it himself!”

“Well, they’re right, Senpai. It really doesn’t suit you,” Mash replied. “Plus it’s unhealthy. They probably don’t want you to get sick from them.”

Saber Lily looked thoughtful for a moment before her face turned bright red. “Master,” she said cautiously, “do a lot of the men who take away the cigarettes then use it themselves?”

“Yeah.” Violet looked at the young saber. She had an idea where this question was going, but she figured she’d hear it out till the end.

“D-does that mean...I-indirect kiss…” she stuttered, hands pressed to her cheeks in embarrassment. “And so many…”

“Yeah, pretty much,” Violet replied nonchalantly. She counted off the list of names on her fingers. “Caster Cu, Lancer Cu, Hektor, Billy, Robin, both Kintokis...Don’t tell the last two, they’ll flip out. Anyone else usually just throws it away.” It’s not like the thought hadn’t occurred to her the first few times.

“Senpai!” Mash exclaimed with a blush.

“So effortless….I see. Master is an experienced woman…” Saber Lily said with trembling reverence.

“Yo, don’t start with that. People will get the wrong idea.”

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RIIIIIPPPPP!!!!

Jekyll leaped backward just in time to prevent his torso from being crushed by the goblin’s spiked club. Brandishing his knife, he lunged forward and slit the goblin’s throat. Blood spurted out and the goblin fell to the ground dead.

All enemies defeated,” Mash said over the communicator.

“Okay, let’s break then. That was the fourth goblin mob we’ve encountered. How close are we from their village?”

“1.5 kilometers.”

Violet nodded. “Okay. We still have a bit to go. How’s everyone doing on damage? Does anyone need to be healed before we continue?”

She looked around at her six servants. She was met with shaking heads from five of them.

“What about you Jekyll? It looked like you got nicked near the end.”

“I’m...fine,” Jekyll said, tugging at his torn shirt.

Though Jekyll had avoided any damage to his person, his clothes had not been so fortunate. The club’s spikes had ripped right through his vest and shirt, leaving his chest and stomach exposed to the elements.

Jekyll uncomfortably tried to adjust what was left of his shirt in an attempt to preserve some sense of modesty

“Are you sure?” Violet came towards him.

Jekyll’s breath caught in his throat as she placed her hand just under his chest and leaned in close to examine him. Despite only feeling the material of the gloves that came with the Chaldea Combat Uniform, at her touch, electricity ran through him as her hands wandered across his chest and abdomen.

“Wow, not a scratch. No pain, right?” she asked, looking up at him.

“N-no,” he stuttered, his face tinting pink. He nervously tugged on his torn clothes.

Violet watched him. “You’re probably on comfortable like that. Here.” She unzipped the large black hoodie she always wore over the Combat Uniform and threw it around Jekyll’s shoulders.

“M-master! W-wait!”

Jekyll tried to stop her. The mystic code was skin-tight and left almost nothing to the imagination. He knew how much Violet never wore the Combat Uniform without anything over it. Every time a mission called for it, the black hoodie was added to make it more modest.

But now she was making him wear it in the middle of a mission.

“Master! This is unnecessary! My shirt will regenerate given time!”

Violet zipped up the jacket, pausing when the zipper reached the neck. Her eyes met Jekyll’s.

“Dr. Jekyll. I have never seen you in anything less than two layers,” she said, her voice smooth in its matter-of-fact tone. 

With a flick of her wrist, she released the zipper and strutted away.

“It’s big enough for you to get your arms into the sleeves,” she said over her shoulder.

“Since everyone is fine, let’s head out!”

The other servants followed after their master’s orange form, but Jekyll lingered.

The jacket was still warm from his master’s body heat. If he sniffed the hood that rested behind his shoulders, he would probably smell the coconut oil that she always used for her hair. His eyes followed her in her plugsuit as she walked away from him. From her head, to her back, to her-

‘NO! You do NOT think of your master that way!’

Jekyll furiously shook his head and ran to catch up with the others

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Violet sat in a lounger in one of Chaldea’s lesser lounges, her eyes lazily following Finn and Jake as they ran across the tv screen.

She had just returned from a three-day mission in a mini singularity. After a post-mission check up, she had been sent on her way with a clean bill of health. Mash had to stay back in the control room to finish off some work so Violet had been left to her own devices.

She was exhausted, but the day was still young, and she didn’t want to sleep yet. Not in the mood for the noise of the rec room or to go to her quarters, she had made her way to a less used lounge.

When she came in, some of the younger servants were watching cartoons on the tv. She quietly took a seat in the plush lounger and joined them.

Violet blinked slowly. She tried to focus her eyes on what was going on on screen, but her vision kept on blurring. 

She forced herself to sit up in the lounger and brought her eyes back into focus. A yawn escaped from her mouth.

With one blink, Finn and Jake entered the Ice King’s castle.

On the next, Finn threw a penguin at the Ice King.

During a slower blink, Finn  and Jake attacked the Ice King.

On the final blink, Finn headed towards the locked up princess.

Violet was too tired to see him free her.

…………………

Another episode came on and ended. The children got up to find something else to occupy their time with.

Bunyan noticed their master slumbering in the lounger. She approached her and called her title quietly. Soft snores came in response.

Her ox, Babe lowed by her side. Bunyan picked him up.

Nursery Rhyme put a finger to her mouth and shushed her friend’s pet. 

She picked up her White Rabbit, a white rabbit plushie in a waistcoat that Atalante had bought for her, and gently placed it in their master’s arms.

She lightly kissed their master’s cheek before gesturing for Bunyan to quietly follow her out of the room. 

Bunyan kissed her before letting Babe give their master a quick lick on the cheek. The two girls then left the room.

…………………

Osakabehime entered the lounge looking for something. Elisabeth had previously dragged her out of her room and all around Chaldea. During the excursion, the hikikomori had misplaced her stylus.

She scanned the room and perked up when she spotted the tool on the floor by one of the room’s loungers.

She quickly went to the stylus and picked it up. It was then that she noticed her master slumbering in the lounger.

She poked her master’s chubby cheek. She continued to snore.

Osakabehime blinked before removing her pink kimono and spreading it over her sleeping master.

Then the neet scurried back to her cave.

………………..

Nitocris looked down at her ally disapprovingly with hand on her hips as a stream of drool trailed from her lips as she slept. 

She gestured towards her medjeds and one of them left and came back with a handkerchief on its head.

She took the handkerchief and gently wiped the corner of her ally’s lip. 

When she had finished with that, she looked at her medjeds. They looked back at her expectantly. After a little bit of thought, she picked up the nearest medjed and placed it in her ally’s arms along with the white rabbit. The medjed snuggled into her arms. 

She nodded in satisfaction before leaving with the rest of her medjeds. She couldn’t leave her ally unguarded after all.

………………..

Kotarou and Berserker Kintoki entered the lesser lounge. Kintoki was talking about a recent sparring match that he had when Kotarou suddenly shushed him. The assassin pointed to their slumbering master. Her glasses were slipping off the tip of her nose.

Kintoki quieted down and the two came closer to their master. The medjed watched them as they drew near.

Kotarou gently removed her glasses and placed them on a nearby table.

Kintoki noticed that the AC in the room was blasting. He summoned his jacket with the fur trim and added it to his master’s coverings.

The two nodded to each other. Kintoki gave his master’s head a pat before the two exited the room.

…………………

“Senpai?”

Mash entered the lesser lounge.

“Senpai!” Mash called as she spotted her senpai in the lounger.

“Hm?” Violet opened her bleary eyes and smacked her lips, unconsciously hugging the medjed and plushy closer to her chest.

“Senpai, have you been sleeping here the whole time?” Mash asked as she approached her friend.

“I guess...What time is it?” She looked at her arms and her lap and squinted. “Where did these come from? Where are my glasses?”

“It’s time for dinner, Senpai,” Mash said patiently as she picked up Violet’s glasses and gently placed them on her face. While her senpai became alert quickly when woken up in the morning, it usually took her awhile to get going when awoken from a nap.

“Nito’s medjed...Plushy is...Nursery Rhyme’s...I think…” She picked up the jackets that were covering her. “Osakabe...Kintoki...I need to return these…” she said groggily.

“Yes, Senpai. They’re probably in the cafeteria. I’ll help you.” Mash put the jackets over an arm and took her senpai’s hand with the other.

Still lethargic, Violet clutched the medjed and rabbit and let herself be guided out of the lounge.

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“No fighting in the bath!” shouted Mash.

“Not just the bath, no fighting in the Enma-tei, period!” shouted Violet.

It was their second visit to the Enma-tei hot springs inn. With the inn prosperous again thanks to their efforts the previous year, they had hoped to have a peaceful and relaxing vacation this time….

It started with one servant tagging along as Goredolf’s bodyguard, just in case. Then another wondered in ten minutes after the group set foot on the premises. That was okay, no big deal. Then two more appeared. Okay… Then five. Then ten. Then even more of Chaldea’s servants began to appear. Then more and more…!

They got the message from Sion that no heroic spirit signatures could be detected in Novum Chaldea, only the human staff members remained. Even Nemo had ditched her. They asked where Holmes and Da Vinci were, only to turn around to see Holmes in line at check-in puffing his pipe and carrying a disgruntled Da Vinci under his arm.

Violet turned away from the growing group of heroic spirits in the reception room, removed her glasses, and pinched the bridge of her nose. She loved her servants. She really did. But she also knew that once too many of them were gathered, peace was no longer an option.

And she was right. Soon after being shown to their rooms one of the sparrows asked for help with one of the heroic spirits. Then that evolved into her and Mash having to rescue a few of the monkeys(Benienma’s new hired hands) from a beast in the forest. Then before Mash and Violet knew it, they were back in their red serving uniforms with their hair tied up out of their faces.

They had come into the bath area to restock the towels and washrags and were startled to hear a commotion coming from the ladies’ hotsprings.

“I told you, I’m not a saber!”

“You say that with that face?! LIAR!”

They ran into the area to see what was about to become the beginnings of a free-for-all. Mysterious Heroine XX was threatening Lalter with her energy lance while the altered Lancer raised her own weapon to defend herself, Nobu had her rifles summoned and Suzuka had her blades floating behind her to match, Musashi was rattling her blades at Kagetora whose ever-present smile was turning into a psychotic grin, Ishtar looked about ready to throw hands with Kama who had a smug grin on her face,  and Ibaraki was steadily boiling the other heroic spirits alive with the heat of her flames as Raikou stood on top of a rock, brandishing her blade and Caster Shuten watched the show with sake in hand.

Viole hurried onto the tiled peninsula that jutted out into the hot spring pool.

She raised the flower-shaped command seals on her right hand. “Guys, stop it!” She only had enough seals to restrain three servants, so she had to make them count. XX leaped off her perch to attack Lalter. The light from the seals bloomed as Violet called out three names. “X! Nobu! Iba! Stand down!”

The three froze in place as the command seals took effect. XX’s lance dematerialized and she toppled into the water with a splash. Ibaraki’s flames went out and Nobu’s rifles disappeared. Violet lowered her hand and turned around. 

“Now, Ishtar and Kama-”

BOOM!

Violet’s words cut off as she was launched into the air by the force of Kama and Ishtar’s connecting energy blast.

“SENPAI!/MASTER!”

“Whoops.”

“aaaaaaaaAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!” Violet shrieked as she flew more than thirty feet above the baths and over the fence dividing them.

She reached the peak of her ascent and felt gravity begin to pull her back to the ground again. Violet twisted around and saw the quickly approaching hot springs.

“AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! ”

Violet plunged into the hot water bottom-first with a large splash. She was lucky to land in the deep end of the bath, meant for larger guests. The deep water slowed her descent as her butt and then her back hit the bottom of the pool.

Under the water, Violet flailed about blindly, disoriented by her landing. She could hear voices around her but what they were saying was muffled by the water. She struggled to figure out which direction was up as her lungs screamed for air.

As she struggled, she felt a strong hand grab her wrist and pull her upwards.

Violet’s head breached the surface and she gulped in the air.

“Ha….ha…. Thank….you” Violet gasped, clinging to the person who was holding her up as they supported her with their large arm around her waist.

“Grrrr….”

Violet rubbed the water off of her face and squinted at her rescuer. 

“Herc…?”

“Urrgh…” the berserker confirmed with a nod.

“Thank you,” she said again as she pushed her soaked braids out of her face.

“Are you okay ,Kid?”

Violet turned and squinted to see two figures smoothly swimming towards them. Others were gathering nearby but they stayed out of focus.She moved to push up her glasses, but quickly realized they weren’t there.

The figures came closer and treaded water. Blue and green hair. Violet took a guess at who was talking to her.

“I’m okay ,Cu.” She couldn’t tell which hound she was talking to, but she hoped she’d at least gotten the identity right. “Just a bit frazzled.”

The other figure(Achilles?) let out an impressed whistle. “I’d bet. You caught quite a bit of air there. Those girls really don’t hold back.”

“I really wish they did. It would make things so much easier,” Violet said with a hint of dismay.

“Aw, but where’s the fun in that?” Cu said, clapping her good naturedly on the shoulder.

Violet didn’t know how to respond to that, she wasn’t really having fun at the moment, so she changed the subject.

“Where am I by the way?”

“Oh, you’r-”

“Senpai! Are you alright?” Mash called from beyond the bamboo wall.

“Sorry about that! That was meant for this crappy love god!” shouted Ishtar.

“What? You expect me to be upset that you think I’m a crap god? You’re just making my life easier! Maybe now everyone will stop asking me to use my arrows!” Kama replied.

“See?! Where’s your pride as a god?!”

“You’re just mad, people started asking for my services instead of yours.”

“You wanna go?!”

“Stop it, you two! If you keep fighting, you’ll be sent back to Chaldea” Mash scolded.

Violet rolled her eyes and called back. “Yes! I landed in the water.”

“You can come join her if you want!” someone called out on Violet’s side of the fence. 

“Absolutely not!” Mash shouted.

“Maybe later,” Ishtar replied.

“Ishtar, no .”

There were a bunch of masculine laughter.

Violet turned her attention from the fence and furrowed her brow. Slowly, she moved her hand to Herc’s pinky.

“Am I… in the men’s bath?” she asked cautiously.

“Yeah,” replied Achilles.

Violet’s face went bright red. She remembered passing more than two dozen of her male servants entering the bath on her way to the girls’. That meant she was surrounded by… 

Uncontrollably, her eyes trailed down from the blurry faces of Cu and Achilles to their exposed shoulders and pecs to-

Violet ripped her eyes away from them. Then jumped when she realized she was pressed against the naked Herc.

“I’msorryI’msorryI’msorryI’msorryI’msorryI’msorryI’msorryI’msorryI’msorryI’msorry!” In her panic she roughly shoved Herc’s hand away from her.

Without Herc holding her, she plunged into the deep water. Herc reached down and pulled her back up. She sputtered and spat out the water.

“It’s okay Herc, I can stand up on my own,” she said, desperately trying to push his arm away from her.

“Rrrrgh,” he growled in reply.

“Master, this part of the springs is more than two meters deep-”

“7 feet! She’s an American!” someone (Amadeus?) corrected.

“Right. It’s 7 feet deep. You’re not nearly tall enough to stand in here. Only the berserkers and Teach have been able to stand so far,” said Achilles.

“B-b-but…” Violet covered her face with her hands as her face got hotter than the water she was in. “You guys are naked…I’ve disturbed your bath. I need to leave” she said quietly.

There was a moment of silence before the men burst into laughter.

“Ha! How pure!” a voice (Bart’s?) laughed from somewhere amongst the peanut gallery.

“Kid, you just took a blast from two goddesses in the face and that’s what you’re worried about?” asked Cu.

Violet pouted beneath her hands. “Yes!” 

“Okay, okay, we’ll get you out.”

Herc began moving towards the shallower end of the pool.

When the water became shallow enough for him to walk with Heracles, Cu ruffled Violet’s hair. “Our dear little master. Still a baby. Still can’t handle the sight of a man,” he teased.

“Shut u- eep!” Violet had ripped her hands from her face to glare at him only to quickly cover her eyes again when she realized that the shallower water had exposed more of his muscular body.

Cu laughed.

“Now, now, stop teasing her. Being a pure maiden is a part of her appeal,” said Fionn as he wrapped a towel around his waist and reached out for their master.

Hercules released her and Violet moved her hands enough to see Fionn, covered, offering her help out of the baths.

“Thank you,” she said as she took his hand.

“It’s my duty, Master.”

“Wait, my glasses. They’re the only pair I brought”

“We’ll fish them out for you. Though, it’s unfortunate that you couldn’t see our glorious bodies without them,” he said with a cheeky grin.

Violet’s face burned again. “Goddangit, Fionn.”

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“Mash, have you seen Master? I’ve developed a technique and I’d like to show her it in the simulator”

“Hm?” Mash turned to face Erice in the hallway. “Oh Senpai? She should be in the spare kitchen down the hall right about now.”

“Thank you.” Erice moved to walk past Mash when the older girl put a hand on her shoulder and stopped her.

“I wouldn’t disturb her though. Valentine’s Day is coming after all.”

“What’s so important about Valentine’s Day that has her so busy? She didn’t send out the farming party this morning and no one has seen her since breakfast.”

“‘What’s so important about Valentine’s Day?’” Mash looked at her in bewilderment at the question before she smiled in realization. Oh, right. This is your first Valentine’s Day here. I’ll explain: Valentine’s Day is a very important day for Senpai. She starts preparing for it from the first of January.”

“That early?”

“Yes. You see, Senpai needs to prepare her body for what’s to come. You see, Senpai loves chocolate, but from January 1st, she starts a fast from it. Emiya also puts her on a reduced sugar diet.”

“Why?”

“Senpai is the biggest receiver of Valentine’s Day chocolate in Chaldea. There isn’t a single person that receives more chocolate than her and it’s been like that since the first Grand Order. The pounds of chocolate and other sweets she receives can reach the tons.”

“TONS?!”

“Yep. Some of the servants tend to go overboard. Plus more servants get summoned every year, resulting in more chocolate”

“And she eats all of it?!” Erice exclaimed. “No wonder she’s on the chunky side,” she said a bit quieter.

“Not all at once. She usually tries some of it and stashes the rest to eat over the course of the year. She also shares it with others too. But there’s been discussion of providing her with insulin shots this year.”

“Wow…But why is she so busy now?”

Down the hall, the muffled sound of singing could be heard. 

Mash turned towards the sound before gesturing for Erice to follow her. The two approached a door and it slid open quietly. 

Inside stood Violet standing over a stove with an apron on. Large piles of ingredients for chocolate, plastic molds, and pretty packaging were piled high on the counters. As sweet love song echoed across the tiles as the lyrics poured from her lips. She bobbed her head to the beat of headphones and swayed a little. She continued singing as she paused her stirring. She waved her hand over the pot and the her magic circuits glowed faintly as she enchanted the chocolate.

Mash stepped back from the door and let it slide shut.

“Senpai isn’t just the biggest receiver of Valentine’s chocolate in Chaldea. She’s also the biggest gifter. She makes chocolates for servant and staff member. Since her magecraft has improved, she’s been casting good luck charms on the chocolate. It’s rather tiring for her but because there’s usually trouble every Valentine’s Day, she has to get it done early. I usually help her take out the molds and package them.”

“That seems like a lot.”

“It is. But she’s made up her mind to do it every year as a way of thanking the staff and servants. Neither of us would have gotten as far as we have without them.”

“Hm…” Erice paused in thought. “Is there a place where I can get ingredients and is there another kitchen I can use?”

Mash smiled. “Boudica’s holding a sweets making class for those who want to make Valentine’s gifts in the cafeteria kitchen.”

“Then I guess I’ll be there.”